Improvement in combined chair and work-table



IG. LA. RICH. COMBINED CHAIR AND WORK-TABLE.

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STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE L. RICH, OF ROGKLAND, MAINE.

lMPROv/EMENT IN COMBINED CHAIR AND WORK-TABLE.-

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. l 89, 14 l, dated April 3, 1877; application filed i December 18, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, GEORGE L. RICH, of Rockland, of the county of Knox and State of Maine, have invented a new and useful or Improved Combined Chair and Work-Table; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specication and represented in the accompanying drawings,

of which-4 Figure 1 is a iront elevation, and Fig. 2 a side view of it, the work-table leaf being shown in the first of such iig-ares as turned up ers e f c j', arranged alongside of the arms b b and within it, (the said frame,) in manner as shown.

Furthermore, there is disposed within the frame, in manner as shown, and so as `to be capable of moving vertically therein,two taj ble-supporters, B B, shaped as shown, each of them being provided with a lifting-lever, O, that is pivoted to the frame A, which has fixed to each end of it a curved tooth-rack, D, to receive the lever, all being arranged as shown. A stud, g, from the supporter enters a curved slot, h, in the lever, ora metallic plate fixed thereto.

To the upper bars of the supporters B B a` notched or recessed table-leaf, E, is hinged, so as to be capable of being turned down into a horizontal position upon the said bars, or up into an inclined one, against the chair-back.

For connecting the leaf E to the top bars of the two supporters, I prefer to use in each of the latter one or more staples, fifi, and to provide the leaf with hooks lc k to hook into such staples.

The upper of each pair of side, drawers I invert or place bottom upward in its case, and provide it with a series ofthread-spools, l, arranged in it as shown, there being through the drawer-bottom and over each spool a hole, m, for the thread from the spool to pass up through. 1

. From the above it will be seen that the composite article described presents the advantages of a work-table and a comfortable chair.

When not in use as a work-table the leaf may be up against the chair-back, and when it is down upon its supporters the height of the leaf may be adjusted to the convenience of the sitter by mea-.nsofthelevers and the curved racks. v

After turning the leaf down it may beunhooked from one of the staples and turned aside, so as to enable a person to seat himself or herself in the chair, after which the leaf may be brought around in front of the sitter and again be hooked to the supporter, from which it had been detached.

In order to enable the leaf, when hooked to the rear staples, to be turned down, I provide it with recesses o o to receive the front staples, orthe parts thereof that may extend above the tops of the supporters B B.

I claim as my invention as follows Ihe combination of the pivoted table-leaf E and the chair A with the vertically-movable supporters B B, their operative levers C C, and sustaining-racks D D, all being arranged and applied substantially in manner and to operate as set forth.

' GEORGE L. RICH.

Witnesses: T. P. PIERCE, E. M. RICH. 

